Letter from Samuel May, Leicester, [Mass.], to Miss Weston, Sept. 11, 1852

Title:: Letter from Samuel May, Leicester, [Mass.], to Miss Weston, Sept. 11, 1852
Author:: May, Samuel, Jr., 1810-1899
Addressee:: Weston, Miss
Date:: September 11, 1852
Format:: Letters/Correspondence
Manuscripts
Location:: Boston Public Library
Rare Books Department
Collection (local):: Anti-Slavery Collection
Subjects:: Antislavery movements--United States--History--19th century
Women abolitionists--Massachusetts--Boston--19th century--Correspondence
Antislavery movements--United States
Women abolitionists--United States
Weston, Miss
May, Samuel, Jr., 1810-1899
Beecher, Henry Ward, 1813-1887
Carpenter, Russell Lant, 1816-1892
Douglass, Frederick, 1818-1895
Foster, Daniel
Holley, Sallie, 1818-1893
Gay, Sydney Howard, 1814-1888
Estlin, J. B. (John Bishop), 1785-1855
Places:: Massachusetts > Suffolk (county) > Boston
Extent:: 1 leaf (3 p.) ; 8 x 5 1/4 in.
Permalink:: https://ark.digitalcommonwealth.org/ark:/50959/qz20vc950
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Place of origin:: Leicester, [Mass.]
Language:: English
Notes:: Holograph, signed.
Samuel May, Jr., begins this letter by inviting Miss Weston to attend a meeting of the Massachusetts Anti-Slavery Society, where the "main business relates to an account of Daniel Foster's, concerning which there is a difference of opinion between himself & me, ..." Samuel May mentions the Estlins' tour of Ireland. Russell Carpenter is to marry Mary Browne of Bridgewater. Samuel May attacks Frederick Douglass. He speaks of Sallie Holley's nervousness on the lecture platform. He saw S. H. Gay in New York; he was careworn and in low spirits. Samuel May heard Henry Ward Beecher preach.
Identifier:: 3133747
Call #:: Ms.A.9.2 v.26, p.54
Barcode:: 39999066781335
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